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...Rice, we only swatted a fly once, on the 20th of August 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterwards. How the hell could he be tired?" BOB KERREY, Democratic member of the 9/11 commission, referring to the 1998 retaliatory missile strike that President Bill Clinton ordered against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan...
Granted, the proposed calendar does raise some questions in terms of the traditional year-opening exercises. Freshman Week, preceding the start of classes for first-years, provides a great chance to get somewhat acclimatized to Harvard; under the proposed calendar it would have to be pushed back into late August. The introductory first-year programs in the arts, urban service and the great outdoors, which began many of our careers at Harvard on happy notes, would also have to be moved back farther into the summer. These programs can still be accommodated, however, and given that towards...
...have been disabused of their claim that the strategic mindset of Rice and other top officials had left the administration's focus before 9/11 on issues such as missile defense at the expense of grasping the immediacy of the terror threat. Expect to see discussion about the August 6 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing referred to repeatedly during Dr. Rice's testimony occupying plenty of headline space for some weeks to come - its very headline "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" suggests that the President was alerted to the general danger by the FBI and CIA more than...
...depth of election-year partisan division, not only on Capitol Hill but also in the electorate, will likely limit the extent to which either Rice or Clarke's testimony alters the political landscape. Rice's calm, competent performance, has redeemed the administration somewhat. But calls for declassification of the August 6 briefing and questions over the duration and nature of the joint Bush-Cheney appearance before the commission will keep the fires of Democratic criticism over 9/11 burning for weeks to come...
...thought of his kids drinking contaminated water is what scares him most. "It's a cause worth dying for," he says. "What's happened here is so bad that I felt I had no choice but to fight it with every ounce of energy I had." --By Melissa August...